Help needed with a song about William Quantrill and his raid on Kansas

[williamsburg]

I was going through some old cassette tapes I found I had packed away......yeah I know.....and came across a few songs that I could not identify. The one that still is unidentified is a song about William Quantrill.

The lyrics goes something like "Old Quantrill came like thunder from them there hills."

I've tried search the internet but can't find anything. It was like a country or folk type song.

It came from an old recording of the Truckin Bozo show back in the early 90's.....also on the recording was Willie & Merle doing Pancho & Lefty.

Does anyone know who sang this song. My google-fu came up with nothing.

Thanks in advance.

[Dolomite_supafly]

Dave Chastain Band Ballad Of William Quantrill

I am making a wild guess but that is the ONLY song I can find about Quantrill.

Here is a small; part of the song:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/dmusic/media/sample.m3u/ref=dm_sp_smpl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B002UIN71E&catalogItemType=track

Dolomite

[Guest PapaB]

I found this:

"The Call of Quantrill"

This song was reportably the favorite of Jesse James.

located here

http://www.pricecamp...htm#The Call of

the words are at the bottom of the page.

There's also a song by Cropdusters that could be it. It's here

http://www.myspace.com/cropdustersmusic/music/songs/quantrill-39659684#!

Edited October 8, 2012 by PapaB

[Hooksrpm]

If you ever find out let me know.  I've been hunting that recording for years.

I heard it on the old Road Gang Show on WWL out of New Orleans in the 90s.  It does have the chorus lyrics:

"Quantrill came riding down like thunder from the hills."

It is a very long folk song.  At least 15 minutes long.  I think the DJs played it when they needed a long break, lol.

Internet has never heard of it as far as I can find.

 

[Quavodus]

Wow! Fifteen minutes long. That's longer than Free Bird! I don't think I've heard that and I'm a Civil War buff too. 

[Hooksrpm]

Yep.  They used to have the truckers call in and vote if they wanted the DJ to play it or not.  It usually won but not a lot of competition on the air at 4am, lol!